New Delhi: The Army has considered inducting women cadres into the Territorial Army battalions as a pilot project, with their recruitment to be initially limited to a few battalions, sources said Sunday. The move is aimed at gradually opening up more opportunities for women in...
Doha: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar Sunday met Qatar's top leadership here and discussed major aspects of the bilateral relationship including energy and trade, as well as regional and global issues. He held a meeting with Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin...
Amaravati: Chief Justice of India BR Gavai Sunday affirmed that he is still for the exclusion of creamy layer in reservations to the Scheduled Castes. Addressing a programme "India and the Living Indian Constitution at 75 Years", Gavai opined that children of an IAS officer...
Kolkata: Off-spinner Simon Harmer led with a four-wicket haul as South Africa defeated India by 30 runs in the first Test in Kolkata Sunday, to take an unassailable 1-0 lead in the two-match series. The second Test will be played in Guwahati from November 22-26....
New Delhi: Rohini Acharya, daughter of RJD supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav, Sunday levelled serious allegations of being humiliated and physically intimidated, which compelled her to leave behind her "crying parents and sisters" and depart. In a heartfelt post on her X handle, Rohini wrote in...
Kolkata: The Election Commission of India (ECI) has set a target for completing the digitisation process of the voters' details mentioned in the enumeration forms in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) in West Bengal by November end. "Already, the process of digitisation of the enumeration...
New Delhi: One person was killed, and multiple workers went missing in the stone quarry collapse in the Billi Markundi mining area under Obra Police Station limits in Sonbhadra district, Uttar Pradesh. The incident occurred around 1500 hours on Saturday, and the National Disaster Response...
Chennai: Tamilaga Vetri Kazhagam (TVK), led by actor-politician Vijay, will hold protests across Tamil Nadu Sunday to oppose the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls. The party alleges that the ongoing revision has created widespread confusion among voters and raised concerns about the...
Thiruvananthapuram: The Sabarimala Ayyappa Temple, one of South India’s most revered pilgrimage centres, will open Sunday at 5 p.m. for the Mandala-Makaravilakku festival season, marking the beginning of the Kartika month. With lakhs of devotees preparing for the annual pilgrimage, authorities have put in place...
Kolkata: West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose Sunday described the four-time Trinamool Congress Lok Sabha member, Kalyan Banerjee’s allegation that arms and ammunition were being distributed from the Raj Bhavan in Kolkata as “inflammatory, explosive and irresponsible”. Speaking to the media in the morning, the...
Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh recently, at a gathering at Udaipur’s Bhupal Nobles’ University, sought to brand the ‘educated’ citizens...
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It was a moment of geopolitical déjà vu. On the same calendar day, separated by thirty-six years, United States forces...
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By Aakar Patel One of the more interesting things to look forward to in 2026 is the rivalry between the...
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By Dilip Cherian India-Bangladesh relations today feel like they’re running on muscle memory, while politics keeps tugging at the steering...
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